Method of making boot and shoe pull-on devices.



E. G. JACOBS.

METHOD 01" MAKING BOOT AND SHOE PULL-0N DEVICES. APILIOATION FILED SEPT. 18, 1913.

1,081,835. Patented Dec. 16, 1913.

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COLUMBIA I'LANOGRAPH co.. WASHINGTON D, c.

UNITED STATES PATEN T OFFICE.

ERNEST C. JACOBS, OF ROCKLAND, MASSACHUSETTS, ASS IGNORTO UNITED SHOE MACHINERY COMPANY, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

METHOD OF MAKING BOOT AND SHOE PULL-ON DEVICES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 16,1 913.

Original application filed June 18, 1913, Serial No. 774,334. Divided and this application filed September To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, ERNEST (l. JACOBS, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Rockland, in the county of Plymouth and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Methods of Making Boot and Shoe Pull-On Devices, (Case 13,) of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like characters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention relates to the method of making boot and shoe pull-on devices, and is a division of my co-pending application Scrial No. 774,331, filed June 18, 1913.

In order that the principle of the invention may readily be understood, I shall proceed to describe the best mode known to me for carrying the method of my invention into effect.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view of a pull-on device made in accordance with my invention and secured in place. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a strip which may be employed in the manufacture of the core piece or filler. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the core piece or filler. Fig. 4 is a plan view, partially broken away, representing a step in the application of the covering strap to the core piece. Fig. 5 rep resents a further step in such application; and Fig. 6 represents the completed pull-on device ready for application to the boot or shoe.

In my Patent No. 1,047,721, dated J anuany 7, 1913, I have illustrated and claimed a pull-on device. In the present application I claim a method of making the same.

Heretofore, shoe-pulls have commonly been made as straps composed of webbing, and formed into loops large enough to receive a finger of the user, the end of the strap being attached to the shoe upper. Such a loop-like strap projects a consider able distance above the top of the shoe upper when in use and after the shoe has been worn a short time, it becomes distorted, usually being bent downward on the outside of the shoe, and in both instances it is unsightly and objectionable, and particularly so in high-priced shoes.

The method of my invention has for its object to provide boots and shoes with an Serial No. 790,558.

improved form of pull-on device which is neat, attractive and highly ellicient and which in the represented en'ibodiment thereof projects above the shoe but a short distance and retains its original form after long use. I have herein represented one form or embodiment of pull-on device construeted in accordance with my invention, but it will be understood that the pull-on device may be of varying form.

The pull-on device herein represented as the product of my invention is made as a tab instead of a loop, and has an enlarged end portion adapting it to be grasped by the fingers or finger and thumb in drawing the shoe onto the foot. In the form herein illustrated, I have represented the strap which may be of leather, cloth or other suitable material, and carry the same around and secure it to a core piece or tiller by cement or other means, said strap serving as a covering strip for the core piece and having its ends extended beyond said core piece for attachment to the shoe upper.

The core piece or filler may be, and preferably is, substantially triangular or wedgeshaped in cross section, and may have unequal length sides admitting of one of the sides occupying a siiibstantially vertical position at the inner side of the shoe, another side occupying a substantially horizontal position at the top, and the remaining side occupying a diagonal position as illustrated. As the covering strap conforms to the contour of the core piece or filler, the device will have an enlarged end portion adapted to be firmly grasped.

Referring to the drawing, wherein I have illustrated the product of my method, 1 represents a shoe upper of any suitable or desired construction. The upper, 1, has a pull-on device attached thereto by stitches or other means, and is preferably provided with a lining, 9. Said pull-on device con sists of a core piece or filler, 3, and a covering strip, 4:, carried around said core piece and having free end portions, 5, 6, for attachment to the upper by one or more lines of stitching, 7 which preferably pass through the lining.

The core piece, 3, may be composed of sole leather or other material of substantial thicle ness, and is preferably triangular or wedgeshaped in cross section, so that when in use, its inner side may be substantially vertical. The pull-on device extends preferably but a short distance above the upper edge of the upper.

The covering piece or strap is composed of a single piece or blank, 8, as represented in Fig. 4, and of a suitable length to provide for a number of pull-0n devices. As a simple method of making the pull-on device, I may take a long strip of sole leather, as rep resented at 9 in Fig. 2, wherein it is shown as of quadrilateral form in cross section, and in such case I preferably sever the strip longitudinally, the line of severance being diagonal and extending from one upper corner to the opposite lower corner of the strip, as represented at 10 in Fig. 2, thus forming two wedge-shaped strips one of which is represented at 11 in Fig. 3. The said long core piece 11 is then applied to the covering strap blank 8, as represented in Fig. 4, and is then secured thereto as there indicated, by cement or otherwise, and is folded thereabout as represented in Fig. 5, to form a device of sufficient size to constitute a series of pull-on de vices. I then, in any suitable manner, sever the core strip and the covering strap blank at suitable intervals to provide a number of pull-on devices which may then be attached to boots or shoes, as indicated in Fig. 1.

Instead of applying the cement or other adhesive or securing means before the severing operation, it may be applied afterward; but I prefer to apply the securing means before the blank with its contained elongated core piece or filler is severed into pull-on devices.

Having thus described my invention, I declare that what I claim is:

1. The method herein described of making pull-on devices for boots and shoes which comprises positioning a covering strap piece about a core strip piece and severing said core strip piece and strap piece at spaced intervals to provide pull-0n devices of the required width.

2. The method herein described of making pull-on devices for boots and shoes which comprises folding a covering strap piece about a core strip piece, securing it thereto, and severing said core strip piece and strap piece to provide pull-on devices of the required width. I

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ERNEST O. JACOBS.

lVitnesses CLARENCE I-I. YOUNG, JOHN G. SUTH'ERLAND.

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